Olbermann's Special Comment on Palin

Last night, Keith Olbermann unleashed a savage and well-deserved attack on Sarah Palin, which was one of his finest Special Comments I've heard in a long time. Olbermann, like many, is outraged at Palin's hypocritical remarks regarding Barack Obama's "association" with Bill Ayers.

Here's a particularly poignant passage:

"The Governor of Alaska wants to start calling people terrorists -- and insisting of Senator Obama that quote 'this is not a man who sees America like you and I see America' - and whose rhetoric like that and the 'pallin' around with terrorists' line were rightly described by the Associated Press yesterday as a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing kind of way of slipping racism into the equation because it's a nifty trick to remind the white folk that (PSST!) 'Obama is black.'

But overriding this sleaziness -- and doggone it, the Governor of Alaska has got to be the sleaziest politician working the stage at the moment -- there is the sheer blessed stupidity of letting herself become the bomb-thrower when her own life is full of domestic terrorists.

Governor -- Bill Ayres? Your hubby was in this secessionist hate group for which you recorded a video.

Governor -- Jeremiah Wright? That pastor you credit with helping you become governor is either a con man or a psycho who believes he can tell which woman in the village is the witch and which is the governor."

I'm delighted that at least someone in the media is pointing out what so many are either ignoring or neglecting to follow up on - that Palin has some highly questionable people in her private life that should raise some legitimate concerns among voters, at best, starting with the man she shares a bed with (and I'm not referring to her husband's business partner, with whom she reportedly shared more than profits with).

I've said it before, and I will undoubtedly a great deal more before the election - McCain's selection of Palin disqualifies both, in my view. Palin is unfit to hold the office of the vice presidency, much less the presidency, and if this is the sort of people McCain wants to select to fill posts in his would-be administration, then we are all in it if he becomes president.